Inspecting The Landscape

I still have a bunch of 3399/3400 scenes I need to post, so here's one of them.

Two Osthmoorian Republic "Sentinel" guardsmen inspect the area around the Srihell woodlands, on Motrone 32C, Leuten.

In this scene, some Osthmoorian Sentinel guards basically take a look around the totally-not-madagascar environment on one of the planets in the newly obtained Leuten system. This was basically a scene created with the sole purpose of just testing out some new Baobab trees I drew, and also to give a new good look at the Sentinel guardsmen. I'm super happy how it has turned out, despite it being a quickly done scene, and I'm also happy how the "lush" foliage at the bottom turned out, although it isn't perfect.

I think some of you are wondering what those things (hideous space abominations) are on those trees. Those are what I call cattle-bugs (AKA cattle-worms, but less catchy). When threatened, cattle-bugs will quickly crawl away to the nearest tree and ascend to the top. Often passive and running away from fights, they are slow and armored creatures, capable of withstanding several .50 caliber rounds to their sides. Cattle-bugs are not to be messed with however, for underneath their several feeding "trunks" lie a garbage-disposal esque circular mouth, filled with hundreds of teeth comparable to that of a tiger. These teeth are used for chewing into trees full of water and dead carcasses, which they consume for sustenance. Despite their slow speed and mostly passive attitude, cattle-bugs can and will devour foes that pursue or try to pull them off their trees, capable of swiftly bending backwards and dropping on their prey below. Once their sharp feeding mouths latch on and begin sucking away like a leech, there is no hope of getting them off.

Thanks for looking.

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